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“Unprecedented” unemployment in the island’s “worst jobs crisis in modern times” stands at double 2019 levels, the labour minister warned yesterday. Jason Hayward said further losses were expected with “large scale redundancies in hospitality and fin...

Butterfield Bank has made about 25 staff redundant because of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19. A spokesman for the bank confirmed tonight that 51 positions have been made redundant internationally because of internal restructuring, with “rough...

A supermarket chain has launched an attempt to recruit from the ranks of laid-off workers at the Fairmont Southampton hotel. The plan was revealed after more than 700 jobs were lost because the hotel is to shut for about two years for major renovatio...

The labour minister said that “efforts are being made” to have the first of the Government’s supplementary unemployment benefits paid out today. Jason Hayward was quizzed yesterday after Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier, said on Wednesday that paymen...

Bermuda gained 523 jobs from 2018 to 2019, to a figure of 34,378 working last year. The figures were among the 2020 employment briefs released on Tuesday by Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office. The briefs showed job figures climbing, y...

Thousands of Bermudians left jobless by the Covid-19 pandemic will be targeted in a series of back-to-work programmes, the labour minister has vowed. Jason Hayward said a three-pronged strategy of unemployment reduction, prevention of future unemploy...

The labour minister announced a supplementary unemployment benefit yesterday to help Bermudians who lost employment because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jason Hayward said that the scheme would assist those who were on the previous 18-week unemployment ...

For more than a year, Naje Lathan couldn’t find work. Desperate, and having tried everything else he could think of, he posted his plight on Facebook. A woman eventually offered him a job cleaning her tennis court. Naje, 22, turned it into an opportu...

Laid off by the Fairmont Southampton in March, Jackson Chandranathan took it as an opportunity to help people less fortunate then himself. Throughout the lockdown period, for five days a week, the chef made his way to the kitchen at the Salvation Arm...

A businessman and restaurateur has predicted an exodus of lower-skilled overseas workers will continue as the coronavirus pandemic’s economic toll increased. Marico Thomas, who runs Four Star Pizza, Glaze Bakery and Burger Shack, said he had not laid...

A clampdown on unscrupulous employers who fail to foot the bill for overseas workers who returned home was signalled by the labour minister at the weekend. Jason Hayward reminded company owners that they were obliged to pay for tickets home for peopl...

Jobless expatriate workers from the Philippines — most from Bermuda’s hard-hit hospitality sector — face an uncertain future at home as they prepared to quit the island today. Others from the South-East Asian country of 100 million people remained in...